he messages were coming in thick and fast. Coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen.
Was it a major spy ring? A drugs gang? A protections racket?
Whatever,
to John Creevey the messages were a lifeline - a means of getting back
his wife and perhaps a way to harm the man who had seduced her away
from him.
Press Reviews
'Strange, disturbing, seductive' - Newsweek
'Stunningly clever - another notable example of Miss Rendell's ingenuity and versatility' - Spectator
About the Author
Since her first novel, From Doon with Death,
published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the
Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with
A Demon In My View, and the Arts Council National Book Award, genre fiction, for The Lake of Darkness in 1980.
In 1985 Ruth Rendell received the Silver Dagger for The Tree of Hands, and in 1987, writing as Barbara Vine, won her third Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for A Dark-Adapted Eye.
She won the Gold Dagger for Live Flesh in 1986, for King Solomon's Carpet in 1991 and, as Barbara Vine, a Gold Dagger in 1987 for A Fatal Inversion.
Ruth
Rendell won the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990, and in 1991 she
was awarded the Crime Writer's Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for
outstanding contributions to the genre. In 1996 she was awarded the
CBE, and in 1997 was made a Life Peer.
Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and are also published to great acclaim in the United States.
Ruth Rendell has a son and two grandsons, and lives in London.
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